Donnal Walter <donnalcwalter@[...].com> :
>  
[snip]
>  
>  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/layout.html
>  
>  but this is not really a public "standard". I would even be willing
>  to look at "proprietary" standards as long as they are published
>  and widely recognized.

In that case it would seem that XUL would fit the bill...? Isn't it an
open and widely recognized standard? Maybe not as in "this is what you
must do to do layout" but as in "this is one of the de facto standards
when specifying layout in a data file" (as opposed to using a
programming language API).

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland                    Fall seven times, stand up eight
http://hetland.org                                  [Japanese proverb]


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